Terence Corcoran on America at 250: Trump, too, will be history one day

Maybe the best is yet to come for the United States and the rest of the world

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.

It is all too easy to promote the idea that the United States of America  — about to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the 1776 Declaration of Independence, which stated that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” — is now on the brink of various political, economic, social and international meltdowns. They call it the